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Ok I had my first horror story with custom clearance today. Going to give nazdeeq.com a try next time :-)

I disagree with the last point. Services like MyUS, Viabox etc. are cheaper than Nazdeeq in many cases.

Is there a better way to check if an OUI is being used by a mobile phone or a router? e.g. There are plenty of huawei/apple routers and if one of them is in your neighborhood, you'd always get incorrect count. Similarly, there are many infamous smart phones and people use them but your code seems to ignore them.

I had been downloading the zone file for .PK domains on daily bases until they blocked the zone transfers. Based on comparison of these daily zone files I managed to publish the statistics [1] and also broke the news about hacked .PK domains [2] which was picked up by all leading tech blogs and news agencies.

Currently, I cannot find a way to get the zone file even by officially requesting the registry manager.

[1] https://www.i.com.pk/pknic-domain-registration-statistics/

[2] https://www.i.com.pk/110-pk-domains-managed-by-markmonitor-g...

What about installing OpenWRT on RaspberryPi with USB WiFi dongle which can be used like any other router? Can they ban it as well?

This is how flightradar24.com and flightaware.com work

Great effort but isn't wikipedia a better place to make such documents?

3 wrong approaches towards UX/Security 1. Extracting username from email 2. Extracting password from email and setting it same as username 3. sending password in plain text email.

Just launched @PakistanEdits Unfortunately IP addresses of Govt. owned institutes are not available but its fun to see what is being edited from the whole country :-)

This is how their homepage appear in my chrome:

http://i.imgur.com/UCfMstr.png

The app uses parse.com API for all communication (and probably for all data storage) and I haven't seen it communicating with anything other than parse, getsentry and flurry services.

Does hacking the app means hacking parse.com?

I moved my personal blog from posterous to pelican long ago and hosting it over heroku for free. Optimized it for exceptional performance and got 99 page speed score: http://www.i.com.pk/exceptional-performance-without-mod_page...

Interesting point is that no sweet shop owner knows any sweet by the name of 'Jhajaria' in Lahore. Even 'Fazal Sweets' shown in this ad doesnt know about it. Same seems to be the case in India: http://thedailyretard.in/demand-for-jhajariya-on-the-rise-af...

In 2007 I did the same level of digging with a facebook puzzle solving game. Game used to post daily puzzles and top scorers (solving the puzzle in minimum time) were shown on global leaderboard. At that time, the app was not using any kind of hashing or validation. It was simply posting the score to the server so tempering the data was easier. After staying on top of global leaderboard for a few days (with impossible score of 1 second), the app developer contacted me and requested to stop cheating the system. I suggested him some changes and the game became much better

Interesting, tried making my version

    main(O){10<putchar(5^--O?82-(31&4763657>>5*O):10)&&main(2+O);}

Cool idea btw "love", "coffee" example doesn't work

"take a random photo" might be NSFW

There are 975 .Pk domains registered by MarkMonitor. google, visa, PayPal, sony, zynga, microsoft, hp all rely on MarkMonitor for their identity in Pakistan. It seems that MarkMonitor's account with pknic was compromised. 110 .PK domains had their name servers changed to freehostia.com recently. All of them registered by MarkMonitor. Here is the list: http://i.com.pk/110-pk-domains-managed-by-markmmonitor-got-h... [note: this list was compiled by me]

quite incomplete. why not ask github users to fork, contribute as fixtures & send pull request

I was talking about simple http connection for API instead of https for API

I had a similar problem when using SSL connections. I'm not sure about your data by in my case the data was pretty much public data and there was no harm in using simple HTTP connection. This significantly improved the speed and no more very frequent timeouts.

Also try enabling/disabling gzip compression for API calls.

New version of whatsapp for iOS is there.

Hoping to see wget info, tried getting it via wget and it showed something went wrong :-(

https://aboutmybrowser.com/2691400901

Recently 125,000 Dell Laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed were distributed for free among Pakistani students by the Government.

That exactly is the image problem Eric is talking about

Interestingly http://github.com/president is guy from Russia

or http://mailinator.com

"Django makes it extremely easy to generate database queries, which is both a good and bad thing"

I experienced this when a junior developer made queries in a loop inside template without realizing that it is actually going to be a lot of SQL queries in the end.

I agree with the argument * People will get your data if they want it* Reading the discussion here and on original post, I can make a scraper that would be difficult to detect and block ;-)

Right now they are based on person's location but we can extract the location from content only if content has this information. In case of tweets, not all tweets contain this information.